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You decide... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StKgzoKlXZg

AH-64D Crashes On Take Off - Debris Picked Up By Rotor Wash Hits Rotors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qYqvkE4RKA

I love the Longbow. However, an AH-64D would create an unfair advantage in head-to-head multiplayer sessions with KA-50. The millimeter wave radar offers superior target acquisition in terms of speed and efficiency. One single sweep with a clear line of sight for the top mounted radar is all you need. You don't even need to put your wingmen in danger by sending them out for visual recon. Once the data is shared among the flight team, all the radar guided hellfire missiles could be launched from behind cover. Throw the FLIR in for all weather and day/night capability and everyone would be rooting for the Longbow.

I was just wondering whether it was possible to install some form of FLIR or terrain radar warning device on these planes if they couldn't fly at a higher altitude.

Just leave the deadzone settings in the Saitek Control Panel at their default (that is, no deadzones). You can use the axis tune option in the BS "Axis Commands" screen to adjust the deadzone for the assigned X52 Pro joystick axis or slider within BS itself.

Oops! My fault :P If you are using the rotary slider to map the zoom function, create 3 bands (NOT DIRECTIONAL AXIS) for the rotary using the Saitek SST software as follows: 0% - 40% ( / ) keypress 40% - 60% ( nothing ) 60% - 100% ( * ) keypress Do not map the rotary slider as the zoom axis under the BS "Axis Commands" screen.

It's a common hardware problem on the Saitek X52 Pro. The slider is triggering signals even when it is still. The rapid switching between the zoom in and zoom out commands creates the jitters aka the shaking screen. There are 4 possible options: 1) Using the TrackIR software, shift the entire response curve (Z axis only) for the "Flight" profile upwards so that you get a more pronounced movement (look closer or pull back) when you move towards or away from the screen (The default value in the TrackIR profile is set too low). This alleviates the need to use the zoom keys as you will be using your head movements to control the zoom; or 2) Map the zoom function using the rotary knobs instead of the slider. The rotary knobs give a much more stable response than the slider; or 3) Adjust the dead zone for the slider in the BS "Axis Commands" screen so that you block out approx. 75% of the possible input (the middle portion of the slider), leaving the ends of the slider movement for zooming in or out. This avoids most of the problem spots in the slider, but you end up compressing the usable range into 2 narrow bands at the ends; or 4) Use a customized X52 Pro profile to create multiple deadzones along the length of the slider to compensate for the hardware jitters. The zooming will be performed in steps instead of a continuous zoom. However, as the false signals produced by slider are ignored, the jitters are avoided. I have uploaded the sample profile here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=40856

Are you zooming by shifting in your seat or are you using the zoom keys with your controller (eg. Saitek X52 pro)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2fSjHghubc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdXwzRKpVAw

If The Apache Had Coaxial Rotors, It Would Look Like This... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmDLuuRiiwo

The attached profile offers 4 levels of zoom (pushing the slider away from you) and another additional 4 levels in the reverse direction. Pulling the slider fully back (towards you) resets the zoom immediately. Zooming out at anytime is achieved by pressing the pinkie button and pulling the slider back towards you. You can also customize your own level of zoom by: 1) Increasing or decreasing the time interval of the key presses (/ or *) 2) Adding or removing the number of trigger zones or "tripwires". For example, you may wish to have fewer levels of zoom but with a greater magnification value (key is pressed longer) for each zoom level. Alternatively, you may wish to have more zoom levels with smaller increases of magnification for each level. Please keep in mind that if you put too many trigger zones, you will reduce the effectiveness of the buffer zones (areas with no key mapping) that are keeping the slider problem at bay. Note: If the view appears to zoom in and out (like an autofocus camera) when you press and release the pinkie button, the slider position is too close to the trigger zone and the hardware is causing the spiking (yes, the old problem). In this case, just push the slider slightly forward or backward to move it again into the buffer zone. The zoom level will once again remain stable when you press and release the pinkie button.

Female Apache Pilot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pfDzyvGwb0

It is based on the concept of tripwires.

A software solution to a hardware problem. I hope that you guys will find it useful. BS Cockpit Zoom.zip

An infantry man packing a portable heat seeking anti-air missile. The LWS doesn't illuminate. A rising smoke trail is your only form of warning. If you see it in your black shark's rear view mirrors, better start lighting up the sky with your flares.

Just reset the trimmer whenever you have difficulty trying to re-center the ball. If you continue to correct the side slip with rudder movements and trim repeatedly to overwrite the previous settings, the error will gradually accumulate and make things worse. :joystick:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrjZFG29_iI&feature=related I forgot to read the lawnmower operation manual.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/passenger_lands_plane Passenger lands plane in Fla. after pilot dies By CHRISTINE ARMARIO, Associated Press Writer Tue Apr 14, 12:45 am ET TAMPA, Fla. – Doug White and his family had just enjoyed a smooth takeoff and were ascending through the clouds when the pilot guiding their twin-engine plane tilted his head back and made a guttural sound. The pilot, Joe Cabuk, was unconscious. And though White had his pilot's license, he had never flown a plane as large as this. "I need help. I need a King Air pilot to talk to. We're in trouble," he radioed. Then he turned to his wife and two daughters: "You all start praying hard." Behind him, his wife trembled. Sixteen-year-old Bailey cried. Eighteen-year-old Maggie threw up. White, 56, landed the plane on his own about 30 minutes later, coaxed through the harrowing ordeal by air traffic controllers who described exactly how to bring the aircraft to safety. The pilot died, but White somehow managed. When a controller asked whether he was on autopilot, White replied: "I'm in the good Lord's hands flying this Niner Delta Whiskey," giving the code for the aircraft. White had logged about 150 hours recently flying a single-engine Cessna 172 but had no experience flying the faster, larger King Air. He declared an emergency to air traffic controllers — White already knew how to use the radio. On Sunday afternoon, he got his first lesson landing the larger craft. They were on their way home from Marco Island, where they'd traveled after his brother died from a heart attack the week before. White owns the King Air plane and leases it out through his company, Archibald, La.-based White Equipment Leasing LLC. White got his pilot's license in 1990, but said 18 years had passed until he recently started flying again. White had his wife try to remove the pilot from his seat — afraid that he'd slump down and hit the controls. But the space was too small. His wife couldn't remove him. They strapped him back in, and White sat at the adjacent set of controls. White knew they were supposed to stop at 10,000 feet, but he watched as they ascended thousands of feet higher. Flying the Cessna, White said he's never gone higher than 7,000 feet. White tried to stay calm and listen to the air traffic controllers as they relayed instructions. "It was a focused fear," he said. "And I was in some kind of a zone that I can't explain." One of the air traffic controllers called a friend in Connecticut certified in flying the King Air, 43-year-old Kari Sorenson. Sorenson got out his flight checklists, manuals and cockpit layout sheets and issued instructions to the controller. The controller relayed the process to White. Sorenson told the New Haven Register he hadn't been up in a King Air since 1994 — but he still had all the manuals, and it came back easily. "After 3,500 hours in an airplane you get right back in it pretty quickly," said Sorenson, who has more than two decades of flight experience. At one point, White said he tried putting the autopilot back on, but it steered the plane north, as Cabuk had programmed in the flight's destination in Jackson, Miss. They had planned on dropping White off there, where he'd left his truck, and having Cabuk continue on home to Louisiana with the rest of the family. Flying by hand, White navigated the plane through the descent. "When I touch down, if I ever touch down, do I just kill the throttle or what?" he asked. "That's correct," the controller replied. "When you touch down, slowly kill the throttle." They landed safety shortly after 2 p.m. Fire trucks and EMTs were waiting on ground. "Looks good from here," the controller said. "Good job." White said they tried for about 30 minutes to revive Cabuk, the pilot. The medical examiner's office has not yet determined his cause of death. A day after the ordeal, White said he could never have done it without the help of the air traffic controllers. "Heartfelt thanks," he said. "They don't make near enough money, don't get near enough respect for what they do."

If you are using Win XP, make sure it is at least a Service Pack 2. I tried TrackIR 4 Pro + ver 4.1.036 driver on Win XP Service Pack 1 and it refused to calibrate properly. The axes would jump and cause the in-game view to jitter. So in my case it wasn't the problem of the TrackIR response curve sensitivity setting or background light interference. The issue is with the operating system.

Lock On has the Warthog. Flight Simulator X has the System Hog :rolleyes:

The Radar Cross Section is that of a small bird... I was referring to the one at the bottom :rolleyes:

http://www.aeronautics.ru/nws002/attack-helicopters-comparison.htm Oh no!! The rest are all 2 seater versions!!! I guess that we will never get to fly an AH-64D in LO... :(